Scott Wills

• Sourcing new products, establishing favourable terms, pricing, quality requirements, preferred delivery schedules, and contracts. • Procurement of commodities from 150 plus local and international suppliers. • Purchases in excess of $35 million annually, with 150 purchase orders keyed every week. • Liaison with Marketing and Sales Management to ensure effectiveness of sales campaigns and promotions. • Responsible for supervising and training of purchasing officers. • Making recommendations & advising senior management on all purchasing issues. • Managing vendor relationships and building effective supply chain partnerships. • Source and project manage new products/ markets from concept to completion. • Regular reviews of alternative markets for purchases and availability of goods.

• Posting invoices stocktaking and analysis of profit and loss reports. • Costing of new menus, products and issuing a selling price. • Maintain up to date food safety and quality control paperwork. • Sourcing new business and presentations of new products/menus. • To liaise with suppliers, sourcing new products, negotiating new prices, chasing up all non received deliveries. • Control staff time sheets, training in quality assurance and product knowledge. • Sole responsibility of annual purchases of £4 million, while maintaining systems to control wastage. • Analyse sales histories and adjusting ordering patterns accordingly. • Reviewing all contracts/agreements to achieve ‘best price/best quality’ purchasing.

• Reviewing and reporting of account manager and van sales team. • Organizing in store/head office level promotions and new product presentation. • Prepare and negotiate pricing structures for new products with category management. • General sales team management (8 territory managers, 1 account manager). • Training and assisting with the development of marketing co-ordinators and territory sales team. • Implementation of computerised ordering system. • Organisation of key events (Food show, Kids Show). • Annual sales turnover $15 million.

• Stock ordering of grocery and wine departments, including promotional stock. • Average order of 15-30 pallets daily, up to 16,000 product lines. • Acting grocery manager while department head are on holiday. • Training and development of staff, health and safety through to building promotional displays. • Store presentation. • Supervising and directing of employees of the Grocery and Wine departments. • Average weekly store turnover of $700K

• Running of all departments in the evening, ensuring optimum quality and stock holding was achieved. • Maintaining general tidiness and appearance of store and staff members. • Training and development of staff. • Supervising of up to 30 students and 10 night replenishment staff. • Lockup of store after trading hours and key holder to company safe.